A Multifaceted Deep Generative Adversarial Networks Model for Mobile Malware Detection

Abstract

Malware’s structural transformation to withstand the detection frameworks encourages hackers to steal the public’s confidential content. Researchers are developing a protective shield against the intrusion of malicious malware in mobile devices. The deep learning-based android malware detection frameworks have ensured public safety; however, their dependency on diverse training samples has constrained their utilization. The handcrafted malware detection mechanisms have achieved remarkable performance, but their computational overheads are a major hurdle in their utilization. In this work, Multifaceted Deep Generative Adversarial Networks Model (MDGAN) has been developed to detect malware in mobile devices. The hybrid GoogleNet and LSTM features of the grayscale and API sequence have been processed in a pixel-by-pixel pattern through conditional GAN for the robust representation of APK files. The generator produces syntactic malicious features for differentiation in the discriminator network. Experimental validation on the combined AndroZoo and Drebin database has shown 96.2% classification accuracy and a 94.7% F-score, which remain superior to the recently reported frameworks.